First of all I wanted to say thanks for RC2. I just installed it in place of Beta 6 and it is working great. I have one Windows application that I was using under Boot Camp because it requires 32 bit graphics. When I saw that you added 32 bit mode under RC2 I tried it under Parallels. In addition to 32 bit graphics it also requires DirectX 9.0. I installed the application and it installed fine and I can start the application OK. Much further than with beta 6. However, when I really get the application started it immediately pops up a DirectX Error dialog. I'm running PW RC2 on my Mac Book Pro 15", 2.0GHz, 2GB RAM. Guest OS is Windows 2000 SP4 with latest patches. I installed DirectX 9.0 that came with the application. I searched this forum and looked at the docs and I can't tell if DirectX 9.0 is supposed to be supported or not. The contents of the error dialog are: A DirectX command has irrecoverably failed. Make sure your video card meets the minimum system requirements and fully supports DirectX 9.0. (Updating video drivers may help.) (Debug info: 0x8876086a 6610) Thanks, Rick
It doesn't have Direct3D support, so much of the DX9 specs are not met with the current video implementation.
I should have mentioned that I have no need for Direct3D support. The app I'm running doesn't use Direct3D, just DirectX 9.0 (as far as I know anyway). It's not a game but an aircraft GPS simulator (Garmin G1000). Rick
I believe you will have to wait (may be for quite some time) before DirectX 9 is fully supported in VMs on Parallels. The graphics hardware does not support hardware virtualization and so most probably no good graphics support will be available in the VMs.
It's not just games that uses Direct3D. An aircraft GPS simulator sure sounds like it may call some Direct3D calls to me. And I think some DirectDraw (2D rendering) functions don't work right with current Parallels driver. That may be the culprit.
